On its list of the “100 Greatest American Movies of All Time” the American Film Institute has Citizen Cane (1941) in the coveted number-1 spot‚ and this is hardly surprising. Citizen Kane challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of Hollywood filmmaking of its time‚ and holds up today as a true masterpiece of filmmaking. Citizen Cane (1941) Orson Welles directed‚ wrote and starred in this brilliant film which “revolutionized the medium and has since been considered the most important
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When choosing a film for this assignment‚ my original choice was Bend It Like Beckham because I had heard of it and I had a general idea what it was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film‚ one that I had never heard of‚ and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies‚ I ended up choosing Whale Rider‚ a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times‚ I feel that I now
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4 Aspects “The Hunger Games” In the film “The Hunger Games” directed by Gary Ross‚ and adapted from the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins‚ I studied four different aspects of the film that help to improve the effects the film has on its audience. The first aspect of the film I studied was the contrast -created by both Collins and Ross- between the districts and the Capitol. Some examples of these contrasts include people feasting every night in the Capitol‚ while everyone starves in the
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A Discussion of Heroism in Literature and Film Melissa Bushman‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Mar 1‚ 2007 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Defining Heroism Each individual has their own personal definition of heroism or more specifically the characteristics of a true hero. Some may believe that a hero must be a person of high morals‚ while others may believe that a hero must a brave person‚ and yet others may believe that a hero can conceivably be a hero by chance and must not possess
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Film Comedy: Trading Places Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Film Comedy: Trading Places Movies are created with the intention of entertaining all the while sending a message to the society. The producers therefore have the duty of making sure that the work is not tangential to the original situation as much as possible. The different ways in which they declare the best way of sending the message to the community defines the genre of the movie. It could either be a drama‚ mystery
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Edward Scissorhands shows how many emotions can collide while still not being the right thing to do. Throughout the film there is exemplary acting and portrayal of emotions of characters perfectly. In this film‚ a young boy who was made as a robot being‚ was found and accepted into a new family and home‚ while still feeling and being excluded at the same time. In this neighborhood everyone was the same and had a repetitive lifestyle. As Edward gets used to the town he develops feeling for the teenaged
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sets up a project in 2007 called the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)‚ it was one of the biggest projects he ever did‚ they spent up to three years observing and recording the data of the changing glaciers. (114 words). One main take away I got from this film was that climate change is real and it is happening because there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or otherwise
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16th 2013 091A Research Paper II Can Historically Inaccurate Films Have Positive Effects on Education? “Titanic” is one of the most famous films in the world‚ which is based on a real shipwreck mixed with fiction. About 2 years ago‚ My girlfriend and I saw the film and discussed the facticity of the film. Both of us thought that the film was a historical true story‚ because everything was perfect matched in the film and we could not find any mistakes in it. Nevertheless‚ what surprised
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opening scene of the film introduces Xanadu‚ Kane’s mansion castle with the mis-en-scene connoting a foreboding and ominous atmosphere. A panning shot is used to show the expanse of Kane’s wealth – the initiation of the film in this way establishes to the audience that Kane is someone who has gone to great lengths to attain the wealth and material possessions that he has; however the dark atmosphere suggests that perhaps the American Dream isn’t what it seems. In the words of film critic Jonathon Bowen
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In the video‚ the slaunted screen‚ the premise begins with an immensely popular Asian American male idol‚ Sessue Hayakawa‚ who was one of the most recognizable stars in early Hollywood silent era. He starred in more than ninety films even with white female leads. That was the prime time of the Asian American actors. However‚ unlike Sessue‚ the Asian actors nowadays are little thought as sex symbols‚ even some are mould into masculine gender prowess such as kungfu masters. Moreover‚ according to Asian
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